Use of acoustic doppler sonography to ascertain the feasibility of the pedicled nasoseptal flap after prior bilateral sphenoidotomy

Laryngoscope

Volumn 120, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1798-1801

  Pinheiro Neto, Carlos D ^c   Carrau, Ricardo L ^a   Prevedello, Daniel M ^b   Fernandez Miranda, Juan C ^b   Snyderman, Carl S ^b   Gardner, Paul A ^b   Kassam, Amin B ^a  

^a JOHN WAYNE CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Doppler sonography; Expanded endonasal approaches; Nasoseptal artery; Previous sphenoidotomy; Reconstruction; Skull base surgery; Vascularized flap

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER SONOGRAPHY; ARTERY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; NASOSEPTAL ARTEYR; PEDICLED NASOSEPTAL FLAP; PEDICLED SKIN FLAP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL SURGERY; SPHENOIDOTOMY; VASCULAR PEDICLE;

ADENOMA; ADULT; CHORDOMA; CRANIOPHARYNGIOMA; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MICROCIRCULATION; MICROSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; PARANASAL SINUS NEOPLASMS; PITUITARY NEOPLASMS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKULL BASE; SPHENOID SINUS; SURGICAL FLAPS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 77956585190     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.20996     Document Type: Article

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